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Modelling phonetic reduction in a corpus of spoken English using Random Forests and Mixed-Effects Regression
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In this thesis, phonetic reduction in the Buckeye Corpus (Pitt et al. 2005) of conversational speech is modelled using advanced statistical techniques. Two measures of phonetic reduction are modelled, reduction in the duration of words and deletion of segments from words. Statistical modelling...
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Phonetic variability of the Spanish alveolar tap: spontaneous production and spoken word recognition
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The present dissertation investigated the spontaneous production of the Spanish alveolar tap and how the variability typical of spontaneous speech impacts the process of spoken word recognition. Our corpus analyses found that intervocalic taps vary in duration and intensity due to speech rate and...